Transport Health & Safety Manager

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Job Description

About the role...

The good news is that our continued success and business growth has opened up an exciting opportunity for a experienced, driven and enthusiastic Health and Safety Manager to join our successful team at our Screwfix contract at Stafford and occasional travel to sister sites. This is a critical role to manage the health and safety within the Transport department.

Shift pattern: 08:00 - 16:00 Monday-Friday (contract any 5 from 7)

What you will contribute...

• You will manage the health and safety function for Transport, including supervision of staff to ensure delivery of objectives.
• Your responsibilities will include ensuring a safe working environment for employees and visitors on site, and ensuring the depot is operating within health and safety legal requirements and in line with the company policies and procedures.
• Proactively leading, you will ensure collaborative health and safety projects, both at site and supporting Wincanton group initiatives.
• You will provide authoritative advice and guidance on health & safety matters to all stakeholders within designated area of responsibility.
• By reviewing and auditing arrangements for health & safety management you will be continuously improving these arrangements where appropriate.
• You will provide strategies to plan and organise work systems to reduce health & safety risks and recommending suitable adaptations to equipment, practices and processes.
• Ensure robust reporting regimes are in place for H&S statistics and providing management information and statistics for internal and external stakeholders.
• Drive behavioural culture change programme across a large, growing, multi shift operation.
• Responsible for ensuring all site risk assessments are refreshed and that all training conducted at site is in line with legislative requirements and company best practice
• Ensure the site management team are fully equipped to conduct and investigate all accidents and incidents and make proactive changes to site working practices where agreed.

• What you will bring...
• Qualified to NEBOSH certificate level or equivalent with relevant H&S Management experience preferably in a retail / supply chain warehouse environment.
• Excellent team building, leadership and motivational skills.
• Must demonstrate the ability to communicate and influence in an open and honest manner with individuals at all levels within the organisation
• Excellent communication and influencing skills - results focused with good organisational and analytical skills.
• Up to date knowledge of essential UK H&S legislation.
• Influencing skills and strategies to be able to build buy in to change.
• Demonstrable record of driving significant change through an operation.

About Us

Wincanton is a leading supply chain partner for British business, providing supply chain solutions up and down the country. Through a wealth of experience and knowledge Wincanton provides business critical services including storage, handling and distribution; high volume eFulfilment; retailer 'dark stores'; two-person home delivery; fleet and transport management; and network optimisation for many of the UK's best-known companies.